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The Story Behind
Our Ministry Name:
ArkHaven

The ultimate and future goal of ArkHaven Ministries is to form a totally self sufficient Christian community
of intentional neighbors for end-time ministry purposes.
As Christians in China and many other
countries have found out, the church can suffer terrible tribulation
today. In fact there is more martyrdom and persecution in the
world today than in any time in history. And to think it can not
happen in America is not realistic.
2 Timothy 3:1 “But
realize this, that in the last days
difficult times will come.”
Also, a combination of
natural disasters and man made disasters could throw our nation into
desperate times.
Should we not be ready for such an
eventuality? Are you among the many whom God is leading in this
way?
Green Island of Survival
The Lord impressed me to call North West Arkansas a "Green islands of
survival."
I believe there are other such green islands, but the Lord sent me to
this specific one. There have been many prophecies and visions
that show this is indeed a green island of survival. Such
notables as Corry ten Boom and Nora Lamb had dramatic open visions
while here that told them this is a divinely protected place.
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Here is the story behind this map: A friend of
mine gave me a copy of this map close to 20 years ago. A friend
of his says five prophetic men (who did not know each other and had
never met) where directed by the Holy Spirit to meet with each other
at a hotel in Chicago. After they arrived and discerned who the
others were, they rented a room and began to discuss the things the
Holy Spirit had directed them to share with each other.
One of the things they discussed was divinely protected
areas where Christians would go to not just survive when national
disaster struck, but to save a lot of lives and to minister Christ to
the refugees that would gather there at that time.
They turned to the page on an Atlas map that shows the
continental United States and each in turn drew a circle around an
area the Holy Spirit had shown them to be a protected area.
Keep in mind that this does not mean there are not more
divinely protected areas in the USA, or that these circled areas are
entirely accurate. I can only attest to the one area I
personally was shown, and that is the North West corner of Arkansas,
an area much smaller that the area shown on the map. The Holy
Spirit called this divinely protected area "A Green Island of
Survival."
Intentional Neighbors
This self sufficient community will be
a village of "intentional neighbors" where everyone owns their own
home and controls their own affairs. The common purse concept
will be absent, but common purpose and mutual service will be our way
of life.
Our purpose will be to go into the highways and byways
to minister Jesus Christ to all we find. Our service will be to
meet all the needs within our community by serving each other.
There will be a diversity of ministries, professions, skills and
crafts present.
Self Sufficiency
We anticipate that we
will need our own utilities, food source, housing, and everything else
needed to sustain a healthy life style. Why? Because we
anticipate that the economy will collapse to such a degree that only
those who are ready for such a time with a totally self sufficient
community (reminiscent of the Amish life style) will be able to not
only survive, but be able to take in refugees and meet their physical
and spiritual needs.
We each will give of our services without
charge. All of us will obligate ourselves to do our part to
serve as unto Christ (Mat. 25:31-46). That means that the farmers grow
the food for all, the mechanics keep all the machinery operational, the
doctors treat all the community, etc. Money to finance every aspect of
the community will come from people within and outside of the community who
will operate business throughout the world.
How This
Community Differs From Most
Most Christian communities function as a family that meets the
needs of the family, has their own church on their property, and has
one strong leader, and practices common purse economics. They
always have a business that supports the community family members.
They are susceptible to becoming an ingrown cultish group.
This is the vision
behind the ministry name of ArkHaven.
What ArkHaven Is Not
ArkHaven is not
a paramilitary armed camp of survivalists or a bunch of secluded, hiding pacifists.
Our protection will be divine or none at all. Our prayer
warriors will keep up a prayer hedge about us at all times. The
camp that is armed is depending on their own numbers, training, and
equipment...the arm of the flesh. But there is always some group
out there that can outgun you. It is God's way to offer a vision
of long term provision and peace to a militant band of potential
raiders as opposed to a bloody shoot out at OK Corral.
ArkHaven is not Amish
or Mennonite in its theology, even though their self sufficiency and
community concepts will be very evident on the ArkHaven campus.
I like to point out that if you had asked an Amish farmer how he was
faring the depression back in the 20's he would have asked, "What
depression." Someone within the community makes or grows everything needed within the
community. They are survivors, not survivalists.
Survivalists (as a
general rule) horde food and supplies and arm themselves to protect
their stuff. Survivors are able to peacefully bring themselves
and others through good and bad times by growing and making everything
they need on their own property. They know how to be totally
self sufficient while at the same time be totally dependant on God to
lead and protect them.
ArkHaven will run much
like a YWAM camp. (That is an acronym for Youth With A Mission.)
By that I mean we will train our people to minister on campus so that
we can better reach out into the surrounding community to serve.
And like YWAM, not have a campus church that we expect our community
to attend, but prefer to have our people
go to churches of their choice in the nearby communities. It is
our hope that we can have a YWAM campus right inside our community.
Youth With A
Mission is an international movement of Christians from many
denominations dedicated to serving Jesus throughout the world. Also
known as YWAM (pronounced "WYE-wam"), their calling is to know God and
to make Him known. Back when they began in 1960, their main focus was
to get youth into short-term mission work and to give them
opportunities to reach out in Jesus' name. Today, they still focus on
youth, and they also involve people of almost every age (even many
people who choose to spend their "retirement" in active service).
Their many ministries fit into three main categories: evangelism,
training and mercy ministry. They are currently operating in more than
1000 locations in over 149 countries, with a staff of nearly 16,000.
ArkHaven is a reference
to the Ark of the Covenant
and to Noah's Ark.
Both of these Arks were
places of God's promise, protection, and provision. The ultimate
and future goal of ArkHaven Ministries is to form a Christian
community—a haven for end-time ministry purposes.
The original name was Ark-ten, but God
allowed me to change it to a more understandable name—ArkHaven. When
the Lord first told me the name I mistakenly assumed that "ark" was an
abbreviation for Arkansas, and that "ten" was a colloquialisms for
"town," or Arkansas Town.
But the Holy Spirit quickly corrected me.
He said that this community is an "Ark" as in Noah's Ark and the Ark of
the covenant, and that "ten" is the number 10. I had to look up the
number 10 in Bible symbolism to see what it means.
Ten implies completeness of order, nothing lacking and nothing over. It
signifies that the cycle is complete and that everything is in its proper
order. Thus ten represents the perfection of divine order.
When we combine the two words (ark + 10)
we get this definition: God's place of provision protection and promise,
nothing lacking, until
completeness of order is seen.
Kenneth Uptegrove is the founder and director of ArkHaven Ministries.
My
testimony as to why we moved to north-west Arkansas from Illinois in
1985 is so unusual and so
miraculous that you may have a hard time believing it.
If you believe that
God has moved you to North West Arkansas as well, our testimonies may
confirm to each other that God did indeed move us here.
In 1982 the Lord began
telling me to move my family to north-west Arkansas to start my
end-time ministry. He said He was opening the doors for me to become
established there. He told me this area was "a green island of
survival," and He called the community concept "a community of
intentional neighbors."
At the time I was a
civilian employee at Scott Air Force base in Belleville, Illinois,
serving as a computer programmer. Our testimony of how God moved my
family here from Belleville, IL is as
inspiring as they get. God put together a series of events that made
the move come together in minute and miraculous detail.
Here is our testimony.
On one of my trips to Arkansas in
1983 I felt led to stop at a real estate office. I asked the
agent if there was a small natural and organic farm for sale. She
told me all about a four acre Blueberry farm, but the information was
useless to me at the time. I felt foolish as I walked out of that
office.
Then I felt led to go to Green Forest,
Arkansas
to see if a friend of mine still lived there. He was a
Chiropractor I knew back when we all went to church together in St.
Louis years before. Well, I found his clinic, and he invited me
to spend the night so we could talk. Over dinner I told him
about the natural and organic Blueberry farm in Springdale that was
for sale. It turns out that he knew all about that farm.
The owners traded Blueberries for Chiropractic treatment, and they
were Christians. The next day I went
to visit that farm, but this was just a far-fetched dream at the
time.
The only government job I could
transfer to in my profession was at the Veteran’s Hospital in
Fayetteville, so I filled out a job application there and went home.
A year later the Veterans Hospital in Fayetteville asked me to come
for a job interview. The interview went well, and before I could get
home they had already called ahead and said I was accepted.
I called the Blueberry farm to find
that the owners had moved to Georgia and left a young couple to run
the farm. So I called the owner in Georgia. He was glad to hear from
me because the young couple had also accepted a new job, but in Kansas
City. And his reporting date was August the 5th. My reporting date at
the VA Hospital was—you guessed it—on August the 5th as well. For
this reason I am convinced that God did in deed move us here.
How to contact Ken Uptegrove:
call: 479-756-3436
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